Billy Bragg Quotes - Page 2

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• A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

  Billy Bragg

  Sleep, Dancing, Politics

  Song: Help Save the Youth of America

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• If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they're much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they're about relationships or politics. The most interesting songs, I think, are the ones where the two overlap.

  Billy Bragg

  Song, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

  Billy Bragg

  Country, Who Cares, Patriot

  Interview on CBC Radio One, November 17, 2006.

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• So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

  Billy Bragg

  Song, Political, Way

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• I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

  Billy Bragg

  Party, Used, Stills

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• I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

  Billy Bragg

  Tattoo, Beer, My Love For You

  Song: Greetings to the New Brunette

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• All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.

  Billy Bragg

  Integrity, Real, Media

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• Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

  Billy Bragg

  Jobs, Generations, Worst

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• I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

  Billy Bragg

  Political, Band, Records

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• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

  Billy Bragg

  Safety Pins, Pairs, Punk

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• I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

  Billy Bragg

  Rocks, Racism, Racist

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• What happened on September 11 wasn't the first act of war, it was the most unspeakable act of murder and terrorism. But it was construed by a very small group of people - there is no army out there in the dark waiting to take over America. It's like being stung by a bee and going out and smashing up a beehive, and thinking you've solved the problem. There are more beehives out there; more bees will come. But they're bees. They're not grizzly bears.

  Billy Bragg

  War, Dark, Army

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

  Billy Bragg

  Sleep, Waiting, Activist

  Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

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• If we think we're a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let's commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.

  Billy Bragg

  Thinking, World, Great Idea

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

  Billy Bragg

  America, Stuff, Today

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• We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.

  Billy Bragg

  Dream, Worry, Ugly

  Source: thequietus.com

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• An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

  Billy Bragg

  America, Use, Bloody

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• Baptists burn more slowly.

  Billy Bragg

  Baptists

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• That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

  Billy Bragg

  People, Mud, Wade

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• I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

  Billy Bragg

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Certainly, the international image of the United States today is a lot less positive than 10 years ago. And that really shouldn't be, because you have been the victims of this awful terrorist attack, and I think America deserves the sympathy of the world.

  Billy Bragg

  Thinking, World, Today

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• If you can't see that the glass is half full, you can never be a socialist. You have to believe in the goodness of the majority of people to be a socialist. You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don't believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you're never going to have that sensibility.

  Billy Bragg

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

  Billy Bragg

  Thinking, People, Voting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.

  Billy Bragg

  Musician, Culture, Youth

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• We have laws to deal with people who defame other people's religion. We have laws to deal with people who try to blow up our citizens. We have due process. We have laws to deal with people who we capture during combat and war, but somehow Guantanamo Bay seems to be outside all that. And perhaps it's being maintained with the view to what people are talking about now, this idea of the "long war," that this is going to go on and on, and perhaps Iran is going to be next.

  Billy Bragg

  War, Blow, Long

  Source: music.avclub.com

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